bs2> The English were undoubtedly quarrelsome their drunken brawls at Surat, and... Bombay, were a scandal to.. European.. Christianity. “Drunkenness, and other exorbitances.. were so great in..Surat.. that it was wonderful they were suffered to live.” The.. young men in the factory (of Surat) were extremely dissolute, and on that account they were continually involved in trouble with the natives.”
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The illustrated history of the British Empire in India and the East, from the earliest times to the suppression of the Sepoy Mutiny in 1859. [With a continuation to the end of 1878], vol. 2 pt. 1 : Nolan, E. H. (Edward Henry) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
3 v. in 5. 27 cm